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Constraints on New Physics from decays of polarized $\Lambda_b^0$ baryons at the FCC-ee
Anja Beck, Mero Elmarassy, Asher Sabbagh, Michal Kreps, Eluned Smith
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02225

Constraints on New Physics from decays of polarized $Λ_b^0$ baryons at the FCC-ee
The $Z^0$ bosons produced in electron-positron collisions at the potential Future Circular Collider (FCC-ee) provide unique opportunities for flavour physics. The non-zero polarization of \Lb baryons produced in $Z^0$ decays enables access to a much larger set of observables than at the LHC, where the \Lb baryons are produced unpolarized. This paper presents a toy angular analysis of $Λ_b^0\to Λ(\to pπ^-)μ^+μ^-$ decays using simulation samples of collisions at the FCC-ee reconstructed usin…

Benchmarking GPT-5 in Radiation Oncology: Measurable Gains, but Persistent Need for Expert Oversight
Ugur Dinc, Jibak Sarkar, Philipp Schubert, Sabine Semrau, Thomas Weissmann, Andre Karius, Johann Brand, Bernd-Niklas Axer, Ahmed Gomaa, Pluvio Stephan, Ishita Sheth, Sogand Beirami, Annette Schwarz, Udo Gaipl, Benjamin Frey, Christoph Bert, Stefanie Corradini, Rainer Fietkau, Florian Putz

Benchmarking GPT-5 in Radiation Oncology: Measurable Gains, but Persistent Need for Expert Oversight
Introduction: Large language models (LLM) have shown great potential in clinical decision support. GPT-5 is a novel LLM system that has been specifically marketed towards oncology use. Methods: Performance was assessed using two complementary benchmarks: (i) the ACR Radiation Oncology In-Training Examination (TXIT, 2021), comprising 300 multiple-choice items, and (ii) a curated set of 60 authentic radiation oncologic vignettes representing diverse disease sites and treatment indications. For …

The fracturing of the Dutch far-right, after Wilder's reminded everyone that bigots are bad at compromise, is definitely a relief. Dutch folks I've talked to definitely see D66 as progressive, <strike>so there's no question this is a hard turn to the left (even if it's not a total flip to the far-left)</strike> a lot of folks don't agree. I'm going to let the comments speak rather than editorialize myself..
While this is a useful example of how a democracy can be far more resilient to fascism than the US, that is, perhaps, not the most interesting thing about Dutch politics. The most interesting thing is something Dutch folks take for granted and never think of as such: there are two "governments."
The election was for the Tweede Kamer. This is a house of representatives. The Dutch use proportional representation, so people can (more or less) vote for the parties they actually want. Parties <strike>rarely</strike> never actually get a ruling majority, so they have to form coalition governments. This forces compromise, which is something Wilders was extremely bad at. He was actually responsible for collapsing the coalition his party put together, which triggered this election... and a massive loss of seats for his party.
Dutch folks do still vote strategically, since a larger party has an easier time building the governing coalition and the PM tends to come from the largest party. This will likely be D66, which is really good for the EU. D66 has a pretty radical plan to solve the housing crisis, and it will be really interesting to see if they can pull it off. But that's not the government I want to talk about right now.
In the Netherlands, failure to control water can destroy entire towns. A good chunk of the country is below sea level. Both floods and land reclamation have been critical parts of Dutch history. So in the 1200's or so, the Dutch realized that some things are too important to mix with normal politics.
You see, if there's an incompetent government that isn't able to actually *do* anything (see Dick Schoof and the PVV/VVD/NSC/BBB coalition) you don't want your dikes to collapse and poulders to flood. So the Dutch created a parallel "government" that exists only to manage water: waterschap or heemraadschap (roughly "Water Board" in English). These are regional bureaucracies that exist only to manage water. They exist completely outside the thing we usually talk about as a "government" but they have some of the same properties as a government. They can, for example, levy taxes. The central government contributes funds to them, but lacks authority over them. Water boards are democratically elected and can operate more-or-less independent of the central government.
Controlling water is a common problem, so water boards were created to fulfill the role of commons management. Meanwhile, so many other things in politics run into the very same "Tragedy of the Commons" problems. The right wing solution to commons management is to let corporations ruin everything. The left-state solution is to move everything into the government so it can be undermined and destroyed by the right. The Dutch solution to this specific problem has been to move commons management out of the domain of the central government into something else.
And when I say "government" here, I'm speaking more to the liberal definition of the term than to an anarchist definition. A democratically controlled authority that facilitates resource management lacks the capacity for coercive violence that anarchists define as "government." (Though I assume they might leverage police or something if folks refuse to pay their taxes, but I can't imagine anyone choosing not to.)
As the US federal government destroys the social fabric of the US, as Trump guts programs critical to people's survival, it might be worth thinking about this model. These authorities weren't created by any central authority, they evolved from the people. Nothing stops Americans from building similar institutions that are both democratic and outside of the authority of a government that could choose to defund and abolish them... nothing but the realization that yes, you actually can.
#USPol #NLPol

US-Regierung genehmigt Waffenverkauf an die Ukraine
Das US-Außenministerium hat den Verkauf von Waffen im Wert von geschätzt 825 Millionen US-Dollar (etwa 710 Millionen Euro) an die Ukraine genehmigt. Es gehe um Raketen mit größerer Reichweite und dazugehörige Ausrüstung, die die Ukraine angefragt habe, teilte die zuständige Behörde Defense Security Cooperation in Washington mit. Der Kongress sei darüber informiert worden - w…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Erneut Tote nach russischem Angriff ++
Die Ukraine meldet zwei Tote nach erneuten russischen Angriffen in der zentralukrainischen Region Dnipropetrowsk. Das US-Außenministerium hat den Verkauf von Waffen an die Ukraine genehmigt.

Na bula do xarope: "Tomar uma dose em intervalos de 4 a 6 horas, em um mšximo de 6 doses por dia."
Agora me diga, 'jênio' que elaborou esse texto, como alguém pode exceder 6 doses em um dia tomando uma dose a cada 4 a 6 horas?! ¬¬

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Charmonium spectrum and its decay properties
Zaki Ahmad, Ishrat Asghar, Bilal Masud, M. Atif Sultan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17841 https://arxiv.org/pdf/…

Charmonium spectrum and its decay properties
In this work, we have calculated the mass spectrum, radiative decays, and strong decays of charmonium (cc) by using the non-relativistic quark potential(NRQP) model. The wave functions are calculated by solving the radial Schrodinger equation numerically, which are further used to compute the radiative decay widths of (cc) states. The 3P0 model is used to calculate the strong decay widths by using the simple harmonic (SHO) wave functions. The SHO parameter \b{eta} values for different cc states…

DRES: Benchmarking LLMs for Disfluency Removal
Maria Teleki, Sai Janjur, Haoran Liu, Oliver Grabner, Ketan Verma, Thomas Docog, Xiangjue Dong, Lingfeng Shi, Cong Wang, Stephanie Birkelbach, Jason Kim, Yin Zhang, James Caverlee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20321

DRES: Benchmarking LLMs for Disfluency Removal
Disfluencies -- such as "um," "uh," interjections, parentheticals, and edited statements -- remain a persistent challenge for speech-driven systems, degrading accuracy in command interpretation, summarization, and conversational agents. We introduce DRES (Disfluency Removal Evaluation Suite), a controlled text-level benchmark that establishes a reproducible semantic upper bound for this task. DRES builds on human-annotated Switchboard transcripts, isolating disfluency removal from ASR errors an…

Das #Rezept des Tages:
Für die #Brotbäcker: Wie wird ein #Roggenkastenbrot gebacken? Eine Anleitung für dieses

Roggenkastenbrot, 2 x 750g
Der Teig reicht gleich für zwei 26er Kastenbrote. Nach dem Auskühlen kann man die Brote zum Beispiel schneiden und auf Vorrat einfrieren.Ich mache zwei Kästen, weil 2 in den Ofen passen und ich die Hitze und den...

Invisible Attributes, Visible Biases: Exploring Demographic Shortcuts in MRI-based Alzheimer's Disease Classification
Akshit Achara, Esther Puyol Anton, Alexander Hammers, Andrew P. King
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09558

Invisible Attributes, Visible Biases: Exploring Demographic Shortcuts in MRI-based Alzheimer's Disease Classification
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the gold standard for brain imaging. Deep learning (DL) algorithms have been proposed to aid in the diagnosis of diseases such as Alzheimer's disease (AD) from MRI scans. However, DL algorithms can suffer from shortcut learning, in which spurious features, not directly related to the output label, are used for prediction. When these features are related to protected attributes, they can lead to performance bias against underrepresented protected groups, such …